Fort Dix Six and the Agent Provocateurs...!

"Agent Provocateurs are a unique type of participant in social movements. These are agents of the government or even of the opposing sides of a social movement whose job it is to spy on the leadership and perhaps to sabotage it's activities. Some are recruited from the membership itself, people who are willing to betray their friends in the organization for a few Judas dollars. Others are police or members of a rival group who go underground and join the movement...What also may be surprising is how far some agents go. During the 1960's, when a wave of militant social movements rolled across the United States, the FBI recruited agent provocateurs to sabotage groups. These agents provoked illegal activities that otherwise would not have occurred: They set the leadership up for arrest and, in some instances, set them up for death. Two examples...In a plot by a group called the Black Liberation Front to blow up the Statue of Liberty, one of the four men involved was an undercover agent. It was he who drew up the plans and even provided funds to pay for the dynamite and rent the car. In another instance, the FBI paid $36,500 to two members of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to arrange for the Klan to bomb a Jewish businessman's home. A trap was set in which one Klansman was killed and another was arrested in the unsuccessful attempt." (Sociology a Down-to-Earth Approach)

Now these tactics are used by the Government to thwart social movements, or to spread an atmosphere of fear amongst the populist in order to maintain the power structure for the "Power Elite."

Let's look at the Dix Six and how they fit into this scenario:

This is a direct quote from the Columbus Dispatch Friday May 11th;

"He railed against the United States, helped scout out military installations for attack, offered to introduce his "comrades" to an arms dealer, and gave them a list of weapons he could procure, including machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. These were not the actions of a terrorist, but of a paid FBI informant who helped bring down an alleged plot by six Muslim men to massacre U.S. soldiers at New Jersey' Fort Dix. And those actions have raised questions about whether the government crossed the line and pushed the six men down a path they would not have otherwise followed." (The Columbus Dispatch)

I can think of a few reasons for the government to possibly frame or push these men in the direction that they may have. I'll list them in order for clarities sake:

1. To Solidify and Popularize the Patriot Act.
2. To further justify the Department of Homeland Security.
3. To further justify the never ending Global War on Terror.
4. To further GOP presidential election prospects in 08.
5. To spread fear on illegal immigration. (It worked on me!)

Just something to think about that's all! Quite interesting don't you think? Also see "order out of chaos."